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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Trump Shows Commitment to Schools With DeVos Pick

Clarence V. McKee
BlakPac Blogger

How ironic!

Blacks gave Barack Obama and the Democrats over 90 percent of their
vote in 2008 and 2012 and got nothing in return to assist the plight of
children trapped in inferior inner city schools. Thanks to BlakPAC, Donald Trump got eight
percent of the black vote and has already acted on his commitment to
improve educational opportunities for those children — even though most
of their parents probably supported Clinton!
Throughout the presidential campaign, Trump made bringing school
choice to inner city parents a key part of his urban agenda. Speaking at
a charter school in Cleveland, Ohio which serves mostly poor black
children, he said that he was "proposing a plan to provide school choice
to every disadvantaged student in America."
Trump’s plan would direct $20 billion in federal education spending
to school choice policies that would give students and their families
the option of attending traditional public schools, public charter or
magnet schools, or even private schools. His message: "As your
president, I will be the nation’s biggest cheerleader for school
choice."

Within days of his election, Trump made good on his promise by naming
school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to be secretary of education.
DeVos, like Trump, believes that parents should have the ability to
choose the best schools for their children, whether traditional public,
charter, or private schools.
That’s music to the ears of inner city and poor parents of all ethnic backgrounds.
By naming DeVos, Trump honored his commitment to improve inner city
education right out of the gate. He has done more in a few weeks to
improve the quality of education for low income children than Obama and
Democrats have in decades.

They apparently care more about pleasing teachers’ unions than the plight of poor inner city kids.
Speaking of teachers’ unions, guess how they reacted to Trump’s appointment — certainly not as happy warriors!

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education
Association (NEA), the unions that have done so much to provide us with
high quality inner city schools — just kidding of course — were
apoplectic over the DeVos appointment. AFT president Randi Weingarten called DeVos "the most ideological,
anti-public education nominee put forward since President Carter created
a Cabinet-level Department of Education." Not to be out done, NEA
president Lily Eskelsen García said DeVos has "lobbied for failed
schemes, like vouchers — which take away funding and local control from
our public schools — to fund private schools at taxpayers’ expense."

Thankfully, these negative voices against greater educational
opportunities for minority children — a unique form of liberal racism —
will not prevail. Beyond the group think bubble of progressive liberalism, in the real
world, Trump’s support of school choice and appointment of DeVos has
many supporters.

Jeb Bush, who fought Trump bitterly during the GOP primaries, an
education trailblazers in his own right, said that DeVos was "an
outstanding pick" and that that her "allegiance is to families,
particularly those struggling at the bottom of the economic ladder, not
to an outdated public education model that has failed them from one
generation to the next."

Bush, DeVos supporters, and conservatives throughout the country,
will appreciate and most likely applaud the comments of incoming Florida
House Speaker Rep. Richard Corcoran.
Commenting on the NEA’s Florida counterpart, the Florida Education
Association (FEA), Corcoran called it "downright evil" for its continued
legal fight against Florida’s tax credit scholarship program that
provides low income families corporate-funded vouchers to attend private
schools.
Adding a very refreshing and candid assessment of the group, he said
the union was "attempting to destroy the lives of almost 100,000
children, mostly minority, and most of them poor" later saying to
reporters the union actions were "disgusting" and "repugnant."
Cheers to the new speaker of the Florida House!
Corcoran, Bush and Trump are not the only ones supporting charter schools and choice for inner city parents.
In May, I wrote in this space how BlakPAC and over 100 black ministers in Florida
demonstrated at the state capital in Tallahassee urging the Florida
NAACP to drop the lawsuit with the Florida teachers union — the same
group Corcoran attacked — challenging the above-mentioned state tax
credit program.
I quoted black newspaper and radio station owner R.B. Holmes, who said the NAACP was "on the wrong side of history."
The ministers weren’t alone.
As I wrote then, "In January “nearly 11,000 private-school students,
program supporters, school choice advocacy groups, and religious leaders
went to Tallahassee in an over 240 bus convoy to ask the teachers union
to drop its lawsuit. They argued that vouchers under the program were
the only way for many families to escape under-performing schools."
I concluded saying that "Donald Trump should make it clear he stands
with Florida’s black ministers on this important issue . . . "
By appointing DeVos, he not only has made it clear that he stands
with those black ministers — and Corcoran — but also with school choice
advocates throughout the nation — including many in black America.